Improvement in spout-formers



L. AYA.

SHUT-FORMER. 179501. Patent ed July 4.1876.

WITNESSES lNVENTOR PETERS, PuoTo-muoenwuz. msuumou. my a.

LOUIS AYA, OF WINONA, MINNESOTA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPOUT-FORMERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,501, dated July 4,1876; application filed April 8, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS AYA, of Winona, in the county of Winona andState of Minnesota, have invented a new and valuable. Improvement inSpout-Formers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthisspeci fication, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a perspective view of myspout-former, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view ofthe same.

This invention has relation to means for producing spouts forcoffee-pots and other vessels; and the nature of my invention consistsin the employment of a rectangular shell, in combination with aremovable rectangular block, provided with a counter-die correspondingwith the shape of the spout to be formed, as will be hereinafterexplained.

In the annexed drawings, A designates a rectangular box or shell, whichmay be made solid, and which is adapted to receive a rectangular block,B, which may besecnred in its place in any suitable manner. In thisblock is formed a counterdie or recess, a, which corresponds in shape tothe shape of the spouts to be made, and which is perforatedat x, for apurpose presently explained.

On top of the counter-die block 13 are two flanges, b b, arranged atright angles to each other, which flanges serve as gage-stops for thesheet metal, out of which the spouts are formed.

' At theback of the case A, and at the middle of the width thereof, is astandard, (J, to the upper end of which is pivoted a handlever, G. Thislever Ghas pivoted to ita die, J, which is adapted for the counter-die,and which is constructed with. flanges fon its upper edges; also with astud, m, which, when the die is brought down, will pass through theperforation m, and retain the sheet metal in proper place at the lastact of forming the spout.

By my invention flanged spouts can be formed rapidly and perfectly, eachspout being pressed in proper shape at one stroke of the die.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with the rectangular shell A of the removablerectangular block B,

having formed therein a counter-die, a, which corresponds to the shapeof the spout to be made, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the counter-die at, having perforation 0c, and dieJ, having retaining-pin 00, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

j In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

' LOUIS AYA.

Witnesses:

0. B. GOULD, (1S. MAYBURY.

